“Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God great enough to make and maintain this universe, shall there continue knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?”
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Fragments: Notes for Speeches, September 1859, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953) Vol. III…
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